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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Immediately after the Boxers' Uprising, it seemed as if China was going to take over Japanese education on a wholesale scale. There were forty to fifty thousand Chinese students flooding all Japanese institutions. But in the meantime English was required in all Chinese schools, and students looked toward America for a first-hand practical education. The number of Chinese students in Japan began to decrease until now there are only four thousand...
...gymnasium the University must have eventually; and when there is a good prospect of obtaining the large funds needed, the men then in College will undoubtedly be willing to contribute generously. Ten thousand dollars is very little toward a gymnasium, anyway, but it is almost enough for the swimmingpool; and Treasurer E. H. Clark of the Union has promises of half of the remainder required. A perusal of his article, which is reprinted from the Alumni Bulletin, should settle any doubts as to desirability and feasibility of the project...
...United States because it affords opportunities for self-support that are available nowhere else. For, with the exception of the government students and those who are unusually well-to-do, the resources of the average Japanese young man are not great. The government of Japan spends only a hundred thousand dollars yearly for the support of students, which is given to the ablest alone...
...these: that at last there has been some definite step taken by Harvard University students to show not only by words but by action the widespread realization of the responsibility of the individual to the Government for the maintenance of the country's integrity; that to date over one thousand men have come forward and have signified their intention and willingness to give up three hours a week of their limited time to actual work towards that end; that the citizens of this country may at last turn their eyes to the natural place of leadership in the community...
...Harvard may not have much military value. It is, however, all that many men are able to contribute. The significance of the undertaking is wider and more fundamental than the actual material profit that can be expected; it is the public expression of the patriotism and responsibility which one thousand educated men at Harvard University feel for their country. As such the Harvard Battalion deserves the support not only of every man in the University but of every patriotic American. WESTMORE WILLCOX...